Kamasi Washington

Dogs that travel on planes now have a bathroom to use at the Los Angeles International Airport. Dogs traveling on planes now have a bathroom just for them at the airport. The Los Angeles international airport is introducing their newest animal friendly bathroom on Friday. The airport is calling them "relief areas" past security checkpoints inside eight of their terminals.

The man fatally shot by a deputy in Compton last month was not connected to a carjacking suspect who had opened fire on deputies, sheriff's officials said. During the July 28 incident, a carjacking suspect crashed a stolen car, fired at deputies and fled into a neighborhood. A search ensued, and that suspect was taken into custody. Around the same time, a resident in the neighborhood noticed 27-year-old Donnell Thompson lying in his yard and called 911. Sheriff's officials said deputies were concerned that Thompson may be armed and possibly connected to the carjacking suspect.

A former teen witch/Riot Grrrl/biochemistry major, Maja D’Aoust now uses her science background to examine the world through her lecture series, tarot readings, and insightful performances as the Oracle. By J. Bennett. (March, 2016)

Tarantulas are out looking for love, and hikers in Southern California's Santa Monica Mountains are warned to watch out for the hairy spiders. Tarantula mating season has begun, and it will last through the end of October, the National Park Service said Thursday. That means the giant arachnids will spend the next two months weaving webs just above ground, outside the female's burrow, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Playboy Playmate Dani Mathers is used to having her body on display. But back in July, the 29-year-old captured an unsuspecting older woman on camera changing in the locker room of an LA Fitness gym. She captioned the nude photo: “If I can’t unsee this then you can’t either,” and posted it to Snapchat. “There is no question that by her own caption that she intended to shame this woman and that’s the nub of the case,” said CBS News legal analyst Rikki Klieman.

Two Los Angeles police officers have been charged with covering up a crash involving a drunk driver and later filing a false police report, prosecutors say. Following an internal affairs inquiry, Officers Rene Ponce and Irene Gomez were charged Sept. 6 with a felony count each of filing a false report and conspiracy to commit an act injurious to the public, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office. Both pleaded not guilty last week.

Police say the gun was discovered at Terminal 3, where Coolio’s bodyguard tried to smuggle the weapon through security. Both the rapper and the bodyguard were taken into custody; however, Coolio’s bodyguard was soon released with no charges, after the police was able to determine that the owner of stolen firearm was in fact Coolio. "Upon arrival airport police immediately took possession of a carry-on bag in the X-ray screening belt," airport police Officer Alicia Hernandez told the Los Angeles Daily News.

A smartphone app provided Los Angeles International Airport police with the tools to help save a suicidal man from jumping off a parking garage ledge. Surveillance video captured the frightening scene in which a young man hangs over the edge of the five-story parking structure just across from Terminal 4. Airport police officers Mike Dear and Bartolo Castro were among the first to respond, and immediately Dear realized there was a language barrier.

The most important fast food restaurant in America is a radical burger joint in Watts. By Willy Blackmore.

Three people were killed and 12 wounded early Saturday at a shooting in a Los Angeles restaurant. Police have taken two “persons of interest” into custody but are still searching for other suspects. LAPD Sgt. Frank Preciado said there were about 50 people inside a restaurant in the West Adams district when an argument started between two separate groups. Three men left, came back with guns and began shooting at the other group, while members of that group returned fire, Preciado said.

Uni High tapped into the pop-psych teachings of the ‘70s to create one of the most bizarre curriculums of the era. By David Kukoff.

Motorists who get questionable parking tickets in Los Angeles and, possibly, other California cities have won a huge victory, due to a decision by the California Supreme Court. The court issued a ruling that will force the city of Los Angeles to start handling parking ticket disputes itself, instead of subcontracting them to third-party company Xerox as it has done for years. A 2014 NBC4 I-Team investigation found that a Xerox subcontractor automatically denied most ticket appeals, even when citizens presented strong evidence they were wrongly ticketed, forcing many motorists to pay tickets they believe were unfair.

When the world gives you lemons, make lemonade. When the world gives you an underpass, make it your home. That seems to be the philosophy of this homeless man who has turned an underpass into his own spot of paradise. Supercool Ceola Waddell Jr, 59, has lived under a road in LA for the last six months. But he’s living in relative luxury with two toilets, sofas, a bed and even a jacuzzi.

Elvis Summers crowdfunded $100,000 to build dozens of tiny homes. City officials looking to pass a $2 billion housing plan tried to shut him down. [Video with transcript]

Each night, tens of thousands of people sleep in tent cities crowding the palm-lined boulevards of Los Angeles, far more than any other city in the nation. The homeless population in the entertainment capital of the world has hit new record highs in each of the past few years. But a 39-year-old struggling musician from South LA thought he had a creative fix. Elvis Summers, who went through stretches of homelessness himself in his 20s, raised over $100,000 through crowdfunding campaigns last spring.

Detectives with the Los Angeles Police Department released a surveillance video of a man robbing a 7-Eleven store with only his hands. He entered the store Nov. 16 on El Segundo Boulevard at Figueroa Street. Police said he simulated a gun and ordered employees to empty the register. His hand was visible under his shirt and behind his back as he jumped over the counter and took $300 from the register.

The latest figures on Los Angeles County residents’ educational attainment might lead you to think that way too many of them don’t have enough schooling to get a job. Twenty-one percent of Angelenos over 25 have a high school diploma but nothing more, while 22% of them, according to the year-end survey by the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp., don’t even have that.

Wes Lang is famous for Kanye’s Yeezus graphics. But the L.A. painter’s fast cars, big rings, and awe-inspiring spaces will make you lust after much more than just concert tees. BY Zach Baron. (Aug. 22, 2016)

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has been moving quickly on the development of what he calls the Boring Company. In January of last year, he presented a proposal at the Hyperloop Pod Competition for a company that would lighten traffic through...